Jaycee Dugard Opens Up About Captivity, Pregnancy, Survival
by Hilton Hater at .I can walk in the next room and see my mom. I can decide to jump in the car and go to the beach with the girls. It's unbelievable, truly.
So says Jaycee Dugard in an interview with Diane Sawyer that airs Sunday on ABC's Primetime, as the woman who was kidnapped at the age of 11 and held captive for 18 years speaks out for the first time.
In June, the man who kidnapped and raped Jaycee, Phillip Garrido, was sentenced to 431 years in prison. He's the father of Jaycee's two kids, and she tells Sawyer that she "didn't know" she was in labor prior to giving birth for the first time. Dugard was 14.
"She was beautiful," Jaycee says of her daughter. "I felt like I wasn't alone anymore. [I] had somebody else who was mine. I wasn't alone."
Incredibly, incomprehensibly, Dugard gave birth to another girl in 1997 and created a school inside the compound for her kids, teaching them as best she could with her fifth grade education."There's a switch that I had to shut off," Dugard tells Sawyer of the experience. "You can't imagine being kidnapped and raped, you know? You do what you have to do to survive."
Jaycee has also written a book about the ordeal, titled "A Stolen Life." It will be released next month.
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Comments (12 Total)
Sky Diver,,, hopefully your parachute won't open next time... you can then blame the ground for your death.
skydiver one, you are an ignorant, insensitive moron to say the least. she enjoyed it? yeah im sure she enjoyed being raped for years and forced to give birth in a shed with no medical help. and im sure she enjoyed not even being able to use the toilet or a phone without permission. she did what she had to do to survive... as for 'cashing in'? she is using the money off the book to start a foundation to help other families like her own. do your research before you act like an idiot
how dare anyone blame this survivor for what she has gone through and survived. victim-blaming of the abused needs to be stopped. you have no idea of the kind of mind-control, manipulation, and severe threats that were put on her to stay within that compound. she was only 11 when she was abducted, she was raised in that oppression. of course she wouldn't leave even when opportunity arose. she just did everything she could to survive. she is strong and is now recovering from the ordeal gracefully, which is something many people couldn't do. she only deserves all the best. no one has any right to criticise this woman.
OMG!!!!! I think it's lovely wat u r doing, I
I think is uber weird as well that she never escaped when she could and she did have a chance- a BIG chance!